These examples are a reminder of the need for ongoing research, humility, and the willingness to challenge established beliefs for the sake of patient care.
The only people asserting dominion over 'truth' are the authoritarian wankers. If you recognize you don't have the right to impose your beliefs on others then you don't need to be right.
For instance, even if I had believed these mRNA transfections were 'safe and effective', I can't fathom demanding someone else take one or else they're excluded from society.
Yes! Misinformation is a danger to democracy with misinformation being that speech I disagree with. We should be responding in kind with equal absurdity “shut up as I defend your right to speak your mind.”
26. Making TSH testing and prescription of T4 medications (such as Levothyroxine) the one-size-fits-all "standard of care" for hypothyroidism patients, while demonizing the use of off-patent dessicated thyroid medications such as Armour thyroid.
Amen. Went undiagnosed for 10 years. Then had fight for Armour. Then big pharma bought out the Armour company and changed an ingredient in the filler. It stopped working as it used to. The internet was on fire globally. The awake thyroid community went to Westhroid and then Naturethroid and then NP thyroid. When that got spotty I changed to T3 only. When you are under treated with just storage hormone you develop lots of very lucrative conditions. Depression, fatigue, weight gain, low body temps, anemia, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, sexual dysfunction and finally congestive heart failure. Hypothyroidism is an epidemic as before antibiotics, people who could not generate a fever high enough to kill the pathogens never reached reproductive age. Think of the trillions spent every year on just those health issues alone. Doctors are just pimps selling our bodies for the pharmaceutical companies and the resulting perks.
The problem is - and has been, now for decades,: Pharma Owns the medical schools. I don't know if there is one in the entire globe where this is not so.
Yep. Started 1908 when Carnegie Foundation took over the American Medical Associations reform of medical education. Flexner released his report 1910 - the intent being to take out the "drugless" competition.
You had me at “more doctors need to read...” I think doctors are often too busy to read and sadly have been indoctrinated into the dogma of the integrity of institutions.
Why take time to read and keep up on the latest research when you can be out playing golf and drinking with your buddies while comparing notes on your mistresses?! It's a simple matter of priorities.
It’s been a few hundred years but a pretty big one was the Puerperal Fever discovery by Ignaz Semmelweis in 1847 prior to Pastuer’s germ theory, that hand washing after an autopsy of a woman that died of childbed fever prior to assisting in delivery reduced mortality. He was rejected by the medical community and died in an institution, his cleanliness practices only adopted 20 years later (according to Wikipedia)
I'd throw in how for awhile Germ theory was considered misinformation and washing hands was superstition. I believe one notable proponent of washing hands left medicine and became a supreme court justice at the time. Another one may be citrus and scurvy. That there was a period of time when sailors knew vitamin C was important but I think the medical science folks thought this was just superstition.
I hope this document is intended for submission to the ABIM, in a defense meant to shame the doctors of the investigating board as to how medical progress actually occurs.
I also hope this list will be expanded to include Semmelweis, the items mentioned above, and those identified by other commenters.
Regarding #6 & #21, I look forward to when the medical field realizes that statins do not work and lowering cholesterol levels doesn't reduce cardio risk for any people except perhaps those who have already had one heart attack. In fact, I believe testing for cholesterol levels should be the exception rather than the rule.
Regarding #16, I don't believe that changing guideline ranges benefits anyone but pharmaceutical companies. Lowering acceptable BP levels for everyone including the elderly doesn't make sense--in many elderly smaller-framed women, for example, if too much BP medication is provided, incidents of falling significantly increase. The tightening/reducing of acceptable ranges for bone density and cholesterol suffer from the same conflict-of-interest and ignoring of side effects.
And don’t forget inverting penises of men who think that they are women and attaching skin tubes to crotches of women who think that they are men (Late 20th Century - ongoing).
Ha!! And this list is WRONG about the use of HRT -- it turns out there were many problems with the study kept many women from therapy that would have helped them. https://peterattiamd.com/joannmanson/
The essence of Patient Rights as articulated in the WMA Declaration of Lisbon is that the only consensus that matters is between the doctor and the patient. No one, not even other doctors, may intrude on that sacred relationship.
I totally agree! You could have even added more! I am a retired RN with a retired license on purpose because of what happened and having to care for my husband who had the Delta variant worse than I did. I do not agree with what they have put out. I didn’t learn that in nursing school 1966-1968! Great school with great teachers. When I retired, I was a critical care nurse working in “Open Heart!” Pre, immediate post surgery and step down. Thank you thank you for telling the truth!!!
Targeted, limited bloodletting may actually be beneficial. Dr. Mercola has advocated regular blood donation as a way to reduce high iron levels, especially in older individuals. There may be other benefits as well, that haven’t been identified. The problem with the old practice of bloodletting is that they sometimes bled the patient to death.
I disagree with the aspirin and cholesterol statements. I believe aspirin would be a prescription drug today if big pharma could get to it. To suggest that cholesterol, saturated fats might not be critical for development of heart disease doesn't make sense to me in any way.
Why do we need to be board certified when the boards let us all down during the pandemic
Good grief. There isn't any science at all supporting the cholesterol and saturated fat hypothesis. Pure ignorance of the function of cholesterol in the body, and of how plaques are formed and what they are made of. You need to do a great deal more reading, my friend. I'll leave you with one question: how do you think it would be possible for something that humans EVOLVED EATING for hundreds of thousands of years, namely animal fat, to be a disease-causing substance? In fact, humanoids prized the fat above all else. Eating saturated fat RAISES HDL and lowers VLDL. Because of this, a person can have cholesterol in the 300s or even higher and not have even a trace of plaque in their arteries. You should know that there is NO science behind the idea that low cholesterol is associated with lower heart disease or death; in fact, it's just the other way around--low cholesterol is associated with higher rates of death from all causes, particularly suicide. Furthermore, statins to lower cholesterol are a disease-causing disaster; a whole branch of medicine is now devoted to statin muscle injuries.
you forgot to mention that our average life span has increased because of interventions implemented today in medicine. The average person is living better today than Kings and Queens centuries ago. Cardiolgy has come a long ways in helping save and prevent morbitity and mortality in patients with CAD. How do you know there is no science in supporting cholesterol? Because of a podcast you heard? Hmmmm.... not very good science there to support your hypothesis.
That’s not what I mean . I agree with vaccines . I disagree with with the agenda that the COVID Vax is the only way to treat and prevent COVID. This should have been backed up by the AMA and Boards … instead they sent emails to physicians threatening them to revoke their status if they mention anything other than the covid vax as a legitimate prevention treatment
Understanding the physiologic consequences of insulin resistance (and eventually, type 2 diabetes) is what brought me to an understanding of the role of carbohydrate overconsumption (not fat!) in the development of heart disease.
You can answer your questions about cholesterol by watching in the diet sector of YouTube. Andrew Huberman Podcast with Peter Attia. There's no bad cholesterol. The science was not done by the establishment doctors or researchers.
I disagree with their Podcast, and to suggest that there is no bad cholesterol would imply that it is ok to eat high fatty cholesterol meals and not worry about heart disease.
Well, if you haven't done it then I guess you don't know. I eat mostly red meat and so do many people. Many of them have low "bad" cholesterol in this case, and for those whose numbers do move up into a worrisome range, that is where the debate about risks is currently happening. You can disagree all you want. Others have a different actual experience.
And I should add that by changing my diet to mostly red meat my life has greatly improved. That isn't the only podcast to listen to , just a place to start. There are many, many doctors and people with health conditions who have done lots of work to figure out the things that are hurting their health. Doctors don't get trained in this and they don't help their patients with this because it will remove the need for drug therapy. You know this much, it sounds like. Why isn't is possible there there is more to learn on your part?
Since WHEN has consensus decided science?? Since Copernicus? Galileo? Since Ignaz Semmelweis was drummed out of the medical biz for insisting his docs was their hands between operations?
As Einstein said, “No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.“
Incidentally, the consensus argument was also used by Adolf Hitler against Einstein. Below is a screen dump of One Hundred Authors against Einstein, from http://www.ekkehard-friebe.de/Hundert-Autoren.pdf/ Of course, Einstein simply noted, why 100? Only one would be needed, if his data were correct. (“If I were wrong, then one would have been enough.” – Albert Einstein’s response to the 1931 pamphlet “100 authors against Einstein,” commissioned by the Nazi Party as a contradiction to the Relativity Theory) And of course Einstein pro-actively passed on his results to Eddington, so they could be verified – compare this to the ClimateGate scam, where faked “research” was shown to be intentionally hidden
Simply stated: Just 'cuz everyone says it's true doesn't mean that it is.
QUESTION EVERYTHING! Question the answers. Question the questions (sometimes you're asking the wrong ones). Question everything again. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Remember: Nothing is ever 100% settled, regardless of how many times Fauci, NYT, ABIM, CDC, FDA, et al insist that it is.
The only people asserting dominion over 'truth' are the authoritarian wankers. If you recognize you don't have the right to impose your beliefs on others then you don't need to be right.
For instance, even if I had believed these mRNA transfections were 'safe and effective', I can't fathom demanding someone else take one or else they're excluded from society.
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I would love to enter a room and break the minds of experts by shouting “there is always room for debate, end of discussion!”
🤣 Your hilarious comment sounds like so many who shout "Democracy, Democracy, Democracy!" whenever they don't like what some of us are saying.
Yes! Misinformation is a danger to democracy with misinformation being that speech I disagree with. We should be responding in kind with equal absurdity “shut up as I defend your right to speak your mind.”
26. Making TSH testing and prescription of T4 medications (such as Levothyroxine) the one-size-fits-all "standard of care" for hypothyroidism patients, while demonizing the use of off-patent dessicated thyroid medications such as Armour thyroid.
Beyond excellent comment!
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Amen. Went undiagnosed for 10 years. Then had fight for Armour. Then big pharma bought out the Armour company and changed an ingredient in the filler. It stopped working as it used to. The internet was on fire globally. The awake thyroid community went to Westhroid and then Naturethroid and then NP thyroid. When that got spotty I changed to T3 only. When you are under treated with just storage hormone you develop lots of very lucrative conditions. Depression, fatigue, weight gain, low body temps, anemia, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, sexual dysfunction and finally congestive heart failure. Hypothyroidism is an epidemic as before antibiotics, people who could not generate a fever high enough to kill the pathogens never reached reproductive age. Think of the trillions spent every year on just those health issues alone. Doctors are just pimps selling our bodies for the pharmaceutical companies and the resulting perks.
More doctors need to read this and leave pharma dogma behind.
The problem is - and has been, now for decades,: Pharma Owns the medical schools. I don't know if there is one in the entire globe where this is not so.
Yep. Started 1908 when Carnegie Foundation took over the American Medical Associations reform of medical education. Flexner released his report 1910 - the intent being to take out the "drugless" competition.
https://totalityofevidence.com/timeline/the-carnegie-foundation-is-established/
You had me at “more doctors need to read...” I think doctors are often too busy to read and sadly have been indoctrinated into the dogma of the integrity of institutions.
Why take time to read and keep up on the latest research when you can be out playing golf and drinking with your buddies while comparing notes on your mistresses?! It's a simple matter of priorities.
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It’s been a few hundred years but a pretty big one was the Puerperal Fever discovery by Ignaz Semmelweis in 1847 prior to Pastuer’s germ theory, that hand washing after an autopsy of a woman that died of childbed fever prior to assisting in delivery reduced mortality. He was rejected by the medical community and died in an institution, his cleanliness practices only adopted 20 years later (according to Wikipedia)
I'd throw in how for awhile Germ theory was considered misinformation and washing hands was superstition. I believe one notable proponent of washing hands left medicine and became a supreme court justice at the time. Another one may be citrus and scurvy. That there was a period of time when sailors knew vitamin C was important but I think the medical science folks thought this was just superstition.
I hope this document is intended for submission to the ABIM, in a defense meant to shame the doctors of the investigating board as to how medical progress actually occurs.
I also hope this list will be expanded to include Semmelweis, the items mentioned above, and those identified by other commenters.
Excellent article FLCCC!
Can we add lobotomy.... sweet gentle pink little baby jesus! We live in a medical dystopia.
Regarding #6 & #21, I look forward to when the medical field realizes that statins do not work and lowering cholesterol levels doesn't reduce cardio risk for any people except perhaps those who have already had one heart attack. In fact, I believe testing for cholesterol levels should be the exception rather than the rule.
Regarding #16, I don't believe that changing guideline ranges benefits anyone but pharmaceutical companies. Lowering acceptable BP levels for everyone including the elderly doesn't make sense--in many elderly smaller-framed women, for example, if too much BP medication is provided, incidents of falling significantly increase. The tightening/reducing of acceptable ranges for bone density and cholesterol suffer from the same conflict-of-interest and ignoring of side effects.
And don’t forget inverting penises of men who think that they are women and attaching skin tubes to crotches of women who think that they are men (Late 20th Century - ongoing).
Ha!! And this list is WRONG about the use of HRT -- it turns out there were many problems with the study kept many women from therapy that would have helped them. https://peterattiamd.com/joannmanson/
There were tons of flaws in the Womens Health Initiative study. Read the book Estrogen Matters to learn more.
Let us have no confusion here.
The essence of Patient Rights as articulated in the WMA Declaration of Lisbon is that the only consensus that matters is between the doctor and the patient. No one, not even other doctors, may intrude on that sacred relationship.
https://www.wma.net/policies-post/wma-declaration-of-lisbon-on-the-rights-of-the-patient/
I totally agree! You could have even added more! I am a retired RN with a retired license on purpose because of what happened and having to care for my husband who had the Delta variant worse than I did. I do not agree with what they have put out. I didn’t learn that in nursing school 1966-1968! Great school with great teachers. When I retired, I was a critical care nurse working in “Open Heart!” Pre, immediate post surgery and step down. Thank you thank you for telling the truth!!!
We had the best training in those "hospital schools of nursing"!
Thomas Jefferson University Hospital School of Nursing, class of '76.
Keeping BP under 120/80? That's not conservative. Perhaps I read that wrong. Treating for BP higher than 120/80 seems suspicious
Targeted, limited bloodletting may actually be beneficial. Dr. Mercola has advocated regular blood donation as a way to reduce high iron levels, especially in older individuals. There may be other benefits as well, that haven’t been identified. The problem with the old practice of bloodletting is that they sometimes bled the patient to death.
Treatment of choice for Polycythemia Vera!
I've even seen recommendations to donate blood if you're vax injured to get rid of some of the Spike.
I disagree with the aspirin and cholesterol statements. I believe aspirin would be a prescription drug today if big pharma could get to it. To suggest that cholesterol, saturated fats might not be critical for development of heart disease doesn't make sense to me in any way.
Why do we need to be board certified when the boards let us all down during the pandemic
Good grief. There isn't any science at all supporting the cholesterol and saturated fat hypothesis. Pure ignorance of the function of cholesterol in the body, and of how plaques are formed and what they are made of. You need to do a great deal more reading, my friend. I'll leave you with one question: how do you think it would be possible for something that humans EVOLVED EATING for hundreds of thousands of years, namely animal fat, to be a disease-causing substance? In fact, humanoids prized the fat above all else. Eating saturated fat RAISES HDL and lowers VLDL. Because of this, a person can have cholesterol in the 300s or even higher and not have even a trace of plaque in their arteries. You should know that there is NO science behind the idea that low cholesterol is associated with lower heart disease or death; in fact, it's just the other way around--low cholesterol is associated with higher rates of death from all causes, particularly suicide. Furthermore, statins to lower cholesterol are a disease-causing disaster; a whole branch of medicine is now devoted to statin muscle injuries.
you forgot to mention that our average life span has increased because of interventions implemented today in medicine. The average person is living better today than Kings and Queens centuries ago. Cardiolgy has come a long ways in helping save and prevent morbitity and mortality in patients with CAD. How do you know there is no science in supporting cholesterol? Because of a podcast you heard? Hmmmm.... not very good science there to support your hypothesis.
Indeed. Board certified means nothing when they recommend vaccination.
That’s not what I mean . I agree with vaccines . I disagree with with the agenda that the COVID Vax is the only way to treat and prevent COVID. This should have been backed up by the AMA and Boards … instead they sent emails to physicians threatening them to revoke their status if they mention anything other than the covid vax as a legitimate prevention treatment
New data coming out contradicts your position using the current vaccine schedule for children. Increased mortality and morbidity clearly is seen.
Understanding the physiologic consequences of insulin resistance (and eventually, type 2 diabetes) is what brought me to an understanding of the role of carbohydrate overconsumption (not fat!) in the development of heart disease.
ok but your point isn't really a point that makes sense. One doesn't stop the other. The pathways are all linked.
Yes, I understand that. Was just commenting on the role of carbohydrates.
You can answer your questions about cholesterol by watching in the diet sector of YouTube. Andrew Huberman Podcast with Peter Attia. There's no bad cholesterol. The science was not done by the establishment doctors or researchers.
I disagree with their Podcast, and to suggest that there is no bad cholesterol would imply that it is ok to eat high fatty cholesterol meals and not worry about heart disease.
Well, if you haven't done it then I guess you don't know. I eat mostly red meat and so do many people. Many of them have low "bad" cholesterol in this case, and for those whose numbers do move up into a worrisome range, that is where the debate about risks is currently happening. You can disagree all you want. Others have a different actual experience.
And I should add that by changing my diet to mostly red meat my life has greatly improved. That isn't the only podcast to listen to , just a place to start. There are many, many doctors and people with health conditions who have done lots of work to figure out the things that are hurting their health. Doctors don't get trained in this and they don't help their patients with this because it will remove the need for drug therapy. You know this much, it sounds like. Why isn't is possible there there is more to learn on your part?
Since WHEN has consensus decided science?? Since Copernicus? Galileo? Since Ignaz Semmelweis was drummed out of the medical biz for insisting his docs was their hands between operations?
As Einstein said, “No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.“
Incidentally, the consensus argument was also used by Adolf Hitler against Einstein. Below is a screen dump of One Hundred Authors against Einstein, from http://www.ekkehard-friebe.de/Hundert-Autoren.pdf/ Of course, Einstein simply noted, why 100? Only one would be needed, if his data were correct. (“If I were wrong, then one would have been enough.” – Albert Einstein’s response to the 1931 pamphlet “100 authors against Einstein,” commissioned by the Nazi Party as a contradiction to the Relativity Theory) And of course Einstein pro-actively passed on his results to Eddington, so they could be verified – compare this to the ClimateGate scam, where faked “research” was shown to be intentionally hidden